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GAO Comptroller General Decisions: About

GAO Logo: Accountability, Integrity, Reliability.The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the investigative arm of Congress. Its mission is to support Congress in meeting its Constitutional responsibilities (e.g. oversight, policy, and funding decisions) and to help improve the performance and accountability of the Federal Government for the American people.

GAO Comptroller General Decisions contains decisions and opinions issued by the Comptroller General in areas of Federal law such as appropriations, bid protests, and Federal agency rulemaking.

GPO signed a partnership agreement with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to provide permanent public access to the GAO Comptroller General Decisions database on the GAO Web site. Under this agreement, GAO agrees to provide storage capacity and user access without restrictions on re-dissemination.

The GAO database on GPO Access is provided as an archive of the content as it was at the time the agreement was signed on September 19, 2008. For these and more recent reports, visit the GAO Comptroller General Decisions database on the GAO Web site.

The GAO Comptroller General Decisions application on GPO Access contains all publicly released GAO decisions and opinions from October 1995 to September 2008. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Each decision is identified by a numbering system beginning with B-(number) and is uniquely identified by B-number and date.